Notable People in History: Recent Episodes
Lawrence Jean-Louis
Come along with me and explore the lives of Archimedes, Galileo Galilei, Albert Einstein, Wangari Maathai, Ctesibius, Valentina Tereshkova, Chiune Sugihara, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett… and others who’ve greatly influenced society.
What life choices led them to be so extraordinary… what can we learn from them?
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of King Jotham, son of King Azariah. When King Jotham died, his son Ahaz became king of Judah.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Queen Hephzibah, the wife of King Hezekiah of Judah, and mother of King Manasseh.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of King Azariah, son of King Amaziah. When King Azariah died, his son Jotham became king of Judah.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Queen Abijah, the wife of King Ahaz of Judah, and mother of King Hezekiah
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of King Amaziah, son of King Joash. When King Amaziah died, his son Azariah became king of Judah.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Queen Jerusha, the wife of King Azariah of Judah, and mother of King Jotham.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of King Joash, son of King Ahaziah and Queen Zibiah. When Joash died, his son Amaziah became the next king of the Kingdom of Judah.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Queen Jecoliah, the wife of King Amaziah and mother of King Azariah of Judah.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the lives of life of King Ahaziah and his mother Queen Athaliah. Ahaziah’s son, King Joash, would succeed her reign.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Queen Jehoaddin, the wife of King Joash and mother of King Amaziah of Judah.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of King Jehoram, son and successor of King Jehoshaphat. When King Jehoram died, he was buried in the City of David, then his son Ahaziah became king of Judah.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life Queen Zibiah of Beersheba, wife of King Ahaziah, and mother of King Jehoash of the Kingdom of Judah.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of King Jehoshaphat, son and successor of King Asa. When King Jehoshaphat died, he was buried in the City of David, then his son Jehoram became king of Judah
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Queen Athaliah, wife of King Jehoram, and the mother of King Ahaziah of the Kingdom of Judah. She was the only female monarch to sit on King David’s throne in history.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of King Asa, son and successor of King Abijam. When King Asa died, he was buried in the City of David, then his son Jehoshaphat became king of Judah.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Queen Azubah. She was the daughter of Shilhi, wife of King Asa, and mother of King Jehoshaphat.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of King Abijam, son of Rehoboam and Maacah. When King Abijam died, he was buried in the City of David, then his son Asa became king of Judah.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Queen Maacah, the wife and cousin of King Rehoboam. She gave birth to King Abijam, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of King Rehoboam, son of King Solomon and Queen Namaah. He became king of the Kingdom of Judah.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Queen Naamah, wife of King Solomon and mother of King Rehoboam of Judah.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of King Solomon, son of David and Bathsheba. He reigned over the entire Kingdom of Israel. When King Solomon died, he was buried in the City of David, then his son Rehoboam, whose mother is Namaah, became king of the Kingdom of Judah.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Tomyris, queen of the Massagetae (c. 530 BC). After she found out about the death of her son, Spargapises, at the hands of Cyrus the Great she led the Massagetean army into war, and, during the battle defeated the Persians and destroyed most of their army.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of King David, son of Jesse of Bethlehem and Saul's youngest son Ishboseth. They were kings of Israel and Judah following King Saul's defeat by the Philistines near Mount Gilboa.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Vashti, queen of Persia, and the wife of King Xerxes. She was either executed or banished for her refusal to appear at the king's banquet and succeeded by Queen Esther.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of King Saul, son of Kish, of the tribe of Benjamin. He reigned for 40-years
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of of Queen Jezebel of the northern kingdom of Israel. Her daughter, Athaliah, was queen of Judah (r. 841–835 BC) and the only female monarch to sit on David’s throne in biblical history. [Link]
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Egyptian priest, Manetho. After the Canaanites were expelled from Egypt, Manetho reports that they wandered the desert before establishing the city of Jerusalem.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Queen Artemisia I of the Lygdamid Dynasty of Caria. Plutarch wrote that it was Artemisia who recognised the body of Xerxes' brother, Ariamenes, floating amongst the shipwrecks, and brought the body back to Xerxes.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Pharaoh Thutmose III. His victory at the Battle of Megiddo gave him control of northern Canaan from which he would launch his campaign into Syria to take Kadesh.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of the Oracle of Nuska, with the intent of discerning fact from fiction.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of King Lalibela. He commissioned the building of 11 rock-hewn churches to recreate the holy city of Jerusalem in his own kingdom, the Axumite Empire.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Šērūʾa-ēṭirat. She was the eldest daughter of Assyrian King Esarhaddon and the older sister of twins, Ashurbanipal and Šamaš-šuma-ukin, crown princes of Assyria and of Babylonia.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of King Za Besi Angabo, believed to be the founder of the Ag'azyan dynasty and the father of Axumite Queen Makeda
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Queen Naqiya-Zakutu. She was the wife of King Sennacherib, mother of King Esarhaddon, and grandmother of Ashurbanipal of Assyria's final ruling dynasty, the Sargonid Dynasty.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Greek geographer, philosopher, and historian, Strabo. He is best known for his Geographia, a 17-book work containing history and descriptions of people and places in the world as known to him.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Queen Sammu-Ramat, a powerful queen of the Assyrian Empire born c. 850 BC. Assyria was an ancient empire which stretched from Africa to the Persian Gulf.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Pharaoh Khakaure Senusret III, the son of Senusret II and Khenemetneferhedjet I and the fifth king of the Twelfth Dynasty.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Enheduanna, the daughter of Sargon of the Great. Her existence was rediscovered in 1927, with the excavation of the temple complex of Giparu the ancient city of Ur, birthplace of Abraham.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Menelik, son of King Solomon and Queen Makeda… the first king of the Axumite Kingdom.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Azadokht Shahbanu, a Sassanian queen from Iran, and daughter of king Khosrow II, who was overthrown and executed on 628AD by his own son Kavad II.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Ay, the vizier of both Akhenaten, Tutankhamun and possibly also of Smenkhare.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Madaki Hasa Askia, the Daughter of Emperor Askia Muhammad I (Askia the Great), the first ruler of the Askia dynasty of the Songhai Empire.
In this week's Notable People in History newsletter, we’ll take a look at the life of Ahmes, the Fifteenth Dynasty scribe who transcribed one of the best known examples of ancient Egyptian mathematics.
In this week's Notable People in History newsletter, we’ll take a look at the life of Queen Idia, mother to Esigie who reigned as Oba (king) of the Edo people from 1504 to 1550.
In this week's Notable People in History newsletter, we’ll take a look at the life of Maya, Overseer of the Treasury during reigns of Pharaohs Tutankhamun, Ay, and Horemheb in ancient Egypt’s 18th Dynasty.
In this week's Notable People in History newsletter, we’ll take a look at the life of Queen Khentkaus I, "Mother of Two Kings of Upper and Lower Egypt."
In this week's #NotablePeopleinHistory newsletter, we’ll take a look at the life of Tutankhamun who reigned during ancient Egypt’s 18th Dynasty.
In this week's #NotablePeopleinHistory newsletter, we’ll take a look at the life of Queen Puabi who ruled the Mesopotamian city-state of Ur, birthplace of Abraham, around 2500 B.C. The lives of women in ancient Mesopotamia were regulated by a patriarchal hierarchy.
In this week's #NotablePeopleinHistory newsletter, we’ll take a look at the life of Pharoah Horemheb, the last king of the longest reigning ancient Egyptian dynasty.
In this week's #NotablePeopleinHistory newsletter, we’ll take a look at the life of Queen Tiye, wife of the pharaoh Amenhotep III, mother of Akhenaten.
In this week's Notable People in History newsletter, we’ll take a look at the life of Abdul-Rahman al-Sa'di, author of the Tarikh al-Sudan, History of the Sudan... a West African chronicle written in Arabic
In this week's Notable People in History newsletter, we’ll take a look at the life of Queen Kubaba, a Mesopotamian queen who ruled in the early days of the third dynasty of Kish during 2500–2330 BC, an ancient city-state of Sumer, Mesopotamia.
In this week's Notable People in History newsletter, we’ll take a look at the life of Elisha Cresques, a 14th-century Jewish mapmaker.
In this week's Notable People in History newsletter, we’ll take a look at the life of Ooni Luwo Gbagiba, she was the first and only female to take the crown of the Iwo Kingdom.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Mansa Sundieta Keita. After his victory at Kirina, Mansa Sundiata established his capital at Niani. His sons went on to succeed him as Mansas of the Empire.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Sobekneferu, considered the first recorded female king of Egypt and last pharaoh of the 12th Dynasty.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of 11th century Spanish Muslim geographer, Al-Bakri. His book, Roads and Kingdoms, gives us an early account of the ancient Soninke empire of Ghana.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Queen Amanitore, the daughter of Kandake Amanishakheto and granddaughter of Kandake Amanirenas of the Kingdom of Kush.
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In this week's #NotablePeopleinHistory podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Pharaoh Piye, the first of the Black Pharaohs who ruled Egypt. The 25th Dynasty's reunification of Lower Egypt, Upper Egypt, and Kush created the largest Egyptian empire since the New Kingdom.
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In this week's #NotablePeopleinHistory podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Lozen. She was a skilled warrior, shaman of the Chihenne Chiricahua Apache born around 1840.
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In this week's #NotablePeopleinHistory podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Taharqa, the third in a line of Kushite kings whose power extended from their native Nubia to the whole of Egypt, which they ruled as the pharaohs of the 25th Dynasty.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Berber Queen Dihya fought against Islamic expansion in ancient Numidia Kingdom under the leadership of Hasan ibn al Nu'man.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Pepi II Neferkare, the fifth king of Egypt’s 6th Dynasty and its longest reigning pharaoh.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Kandake Amanishakheto. She is remembered as a great queen of Kush and is known as a great warrior and pyramid builder; particularly at the Wad ban Naqa site that served as the seat of the Kushite/Nubian Kingdom.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Meryneith, an Egyptian High Priest during the reign of Pharaohs Akhenaten and Tutankhamun.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Queen Meryt Neith. She’s believed to be the earliest recorded female pharaoh of ancient Egypt.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Akhenaten, the 14th-century pharaoh who brought change to the ancient Egyptian kingdom, including changing his name, the country’s religion and its capital.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Empress Taytu Beytul who prevented Ethiopia from being colonized, and founded its capital city Addis Ababa.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Imhotep who is credited with designing the first step pyramid in Egypt.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Nzinga Mbandi, who became queen of Ndongo in 1624. She is known for her diplomatic and military strategies in defending her kingdoms against the Portuguese, transforming them into successful commercial states.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Pharaoh Menes who is credited with uniting Upper & Lower Egypt in the First Dynasty.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life Queen Amina. She was a warrior and ruler of Zazzau, a Hausa city-state which dominated the trans-Saharan trade after the collapse of the Songhai empire in what is now Northern Nigeria. She led an army of 20,000 soldiers, conquering towns to the north and south in the Nupe and Jukun kingdoms, and through Kasashen Bauch
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Oranyan, the second prince of Ile-Ife, who made Oyo his new kingdom. According to Yoruba history, Oranyan founded Oyo around the year 1300 and one of his children, Eweka I, went on to become the first king of the Benin Empire.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Nzinga Mbandi, who became queen of Ndongo in 1624. She is known for her diplomatic and military strategies in defending her kingdoms against the Portuguese, transforming them into successful commercial states.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Shaka Zulu. Before the ascendancy of King Shaka, Zulu referred to only one clan that recognized "Zulu" as its founding ancestor. After Shaka's mission of conquest and consolidation, the Zulu Empire’s population reached an estimated 250,000 and his state emerged as the largest in the history of Southern Africa.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Makeda, Queen of Sheba who ruled the Axumite kingdom for more than 50 years. She traveled to Jerusalem to witness the fabled wisdom of King Solomon and bore him a son named Menelik, the first Imperial ruler of Ethiopia.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Mansa Musa, the ninth ruler of the Mali Empire and considered the richest man to have ever lived. During his reign, the empire of Mali doubled in size, making it second in size only to that of the Mongol Empire at the time, and trade tripled.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Queen Amani. She’s remembered as having led her Kingdom’s army to fight back the Romans from 25 to 22 BC, halting their expansion into Kush. She captured three major Roman cities and brought back the bronze head of Augustus Caesar.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Leo Africanus. Born Al Hassan Ibn Muhammad Al Wazzan, he is best known for hisb book, Cosmographia et geographia de affrica (Cosmography and geography of Africa).
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Hatshepsut. Assuming the title King of Upper and Lower Egypt, she reigned Egypt as pharoahfrom 1478-1458 BCE, longer than any other woman of Egyptian dynasty.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Muḥammad ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi. His book, Hisab al-jabr w’al-muqabala or The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing, is generally considered to be the first written on the subject of algebra.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Queen Boudica, a Celtic queen of the Iceni tribe in England who led a rebellion against Roman occupation around 60 A.D.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Fibonacci. Traveling around the Mediterranean coast, Fibonacci met with many merchants, learning about their systems for doing arithmetic.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Wang Zhenyi. Despite societal norms which prohibited female education, she made accurate findings and observations as to the relationship between the lunar and solar eclipses.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Pythagoras. He’s credited with formulating the Pythagorean theorem, and the concept that music and harmony is present in the entire Universe.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Hypatia of Alexandria. She became the head of the Platonist school at Alexandria, lecturin on mathematics and philosophy. In 415 AD, she was attacked by a mob, and beaten to death with what are thought to be roofing tiles.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Euclid, the Greek mathematician, who lived and taught in Alexandria during the reign of Ptolemy I. He’s often referred to as the “Father of Geometry.”
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Nakano Takeko. Born into a family of the Aizu clan, Nakano Takeko was born in Edo. She led a warrior class of female samurais during the Battle of Aizu of 1868.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Vitruvius, the Roman architect, author and engineer. He is best known for his multi-volume treatise De Architectura ("On Architecture"), which is considered the first book on architectural theory and is the only one from antiquity to survive today.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Golda Meir, Israel's first female prime minister and the third female prime minister in the world.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Greek physician, Galen. Universally known as Galen of Pergamon, he correctly pointed out that arteries were filled with blood, not air.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Grace Hopper. She popularized the idea of machine-independent programming languages, which led to the development of COBOL, one of the first modern programming languages.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Hippocrates, the Greek physician often credited with developing the theory of the "four humors," or fluids, which include yellow bile, black bile, blood and phlegm.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. Their relationship, based on mutual interest in politics, turned from friendship to courtship. On November 4, 1842, a plain gold wedding band was placed on Mary's finger with the inscription "Love Is Eternal."
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, considered one of the most influential food writers of all time.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Deborah Read, wife of American Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. It’s said that she received little formal education. Almost nothing else is known about her childhood.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Plato. He was convinced that the idea of justice, no matter how people’s opinions might change, does not change in itself.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Sarah Livingston Jay, wife of American Founding Father John Jay. Considered one of the first socialites in the United States, she was exposed to American politics at an early age.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Plutarch. Born in Boeotia, educated in Athens, and made a priest at Delphi, Plutarch wrote over 200 works, among them Parallel Lives and the Morals.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Martha Jefferson, wife of James Madison. She is often credited with saving the portrait of George Washington when the British attacked the Capitol in 1814 when 4,000 British troops began landing in Maryland during the War of 1812.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of James Madison. He was the fourth American president, and the chief author of the Bill of Rights.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Martha Jefferson, wife of the third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson. During the Revolutionary War, she raised money and made clothing for the soldiers of the Continental Army in Virginia at the suggestion of Martha Washington.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of James Madison. He was the fourth American president, and the chief author of the Bill of Rights.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Martha Washington, the first First Lady. As first lady, she initiated a weekly reception, held on Friday evenings hosting members of Congress, visiting dignitaries, and men and women from the local community.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Thomas Jefferson. The principal author of the Declaration of Independence, and the third President of the United States, he also delivered the first inaugural address.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Elizabeth Hamilton, wife of Alexander Hamilton, American Founding Father and 1st U.S Secretary of the Treasury. She helped found New York's first private orphanage in 1806.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of American Founding Father, George Washington. He was the first American president, commander of the Continental Army, president of the Constitutional Convention, and a farmer.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Abigail Adams, the first woman to serve as Second Lady of the United States and the second woman to serve as First Lady. She was also the mother of the sixth President, John Quincy Adams.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Alexander Hamilton, American Founding Father and the 1st U.S Secretary of the Treasury.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Zora Neal Hurston. During her lifetime, Zora Neale Hurston published four novels; Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934), Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), Moses, Man of the Mountain (1939), Seraph on the Suwanee (1948) and more than 50 published short stories, plays, and essays.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of American Founding Father and the 2nd President of the United States, John Adams. He served as the first Vice President under President George Washington.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Marian Anderson. Considered one of the best contraltos of the 20th century, Marian Anderson was still subject to the racial bias of the time. Denied the opportunity to perform in DAR Constitution Hall because of her race, she performed at the Lincoln Memorial to a crowd of 75,000 on Easter Sunday 1939 in Washington, D.C.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Medgar Evers, World War II veteran, civil rights leader, and NAACP's first field officer in Mississippi. He filed lawsuits and led initiatives to break down barriers of segregation, becoming a significant voice in fighting for civil rights and social justice before being assassinated at the age of 37.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Susan B. Anthony. Throughout the 1850s and 1860s, Susan B. Anthony honed her speaking and organizing skills, continuing her involvement with the temperance movement, fighting for equal wages, abolition of slavery and suffrage.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Malcolm X. Born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925, he was a major voice for Black Nationalism in the 1960s.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life Indira Ghandi, India’s third prime minister and the first woman to lead the nation’s millions from 1966 to 1977 and from 1980 until her assassination in 1984.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Yuan Mei. One of China’s most influential poets and painters, he was an advocate for women's education and helped publish their poetry at a time when it was suppressed.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Madeleine Albright, the 64th U.S Secretary of State. The journey to her confirmation spanned two continents and 20 years of government service.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Nelson Mandela, South African anti-apartheid activist and the country’s first black president.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Florence Kelley, the first woman factory inspector in the United States. She fought for government regulation to protect working women and children.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of a successful Wall Street businessman and advisor to various US Presidents from Woodrow Wilson to Franklin Roosevelt.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Emily Dickinson, regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry. Some time after her death, her sister Lavinia found a locked box containing more than 1,700 short poems.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. His presidential administration coped with two of the most important events of the 20th century... the Great Depression and World War II.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Mary Riddle. She felt that public opinion was that women would never be successful pilots. She made her first solo flight on May 10, 1930 then earned her commercial pilot’s license in 1933.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Nat Turner. Deeply committed to his Christian faith, Nat Turner believed that he received messages from God through visions and signs in nature and led one of the bloodiest rebellions in American history. The rebellion, which took place on August 21, 1831 is said to have expedited the coming of the Civil War.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Ruth Elder. She held pilot license number 675 and was determined to become the female Charles Lindbergh... a title that went to Amelia Earhart wit her solo transatlantic crossing in 1932.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of American novelist Ernest Hemingway. Born in Oak Park, Illinois, Hemingway was a Nobel & Pulitzer Prize winner who almost died in 1954 after two plane crashes. In 1961, he died with his favorite shotgun lodged between his teeth, the top of his head blown off.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Florence Lowe "Pancho" Barnes. Born Florence Leontine Lowe, she went on to become Hollywood’s first female stunt pilot and was Lockheed’s first female test pilot. In 1930, she broke Amelia Earhart's air speed record and assumed the title of World’s Fastest Woman.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Andrew Carnegie. A Scottish-American industrialist who helped build the American steel industry, he believed that many of the world's problems came about because people didn't have enough education.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Ruth Rowland Nichols. Nichols set a transcontinental record in 1930, beating that of Charles Lindbergh's set earlier that year, flying from New York to Burbank, California in 16 hours, 59 minutes. On her return flight, she flew even faster: 13 hours, 22 minutes.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Fidel Castro, the polarized Cuban leader who improved education and health care for many Cubans and would deprive them of free speech and economic opportunity.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Joan of Arc. Patroness of soldiers and of France, honored for her role in the siege of Orléans, she was burned at the stake on May 30, 1431.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Robert Frost. Four time Pulitzer prize winner, author of “The Road Not Taken.”
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Emily Greene Balch. She was a social worker, reformer, peace activist and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize of 1946 who founded the Women’s International Committee for Permanent Peace, later known as the Women’s International League for Peace of Freedom.
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest minds of the Italian Renaissance. Among the many subjects Leonardo studied, the possibility of human mechanical flight held particular fascination, which may have stemmed from his work on military technology.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Autherine Lucy. On September 4, 1952, before the Brown v. Board of Education case, Autherine and Mollie Ann Meyers sent their applications to the University of Alabama. Realizing that Lucy and Myers were black, the university rescinded their decision saying that a mistake had been made and were not welcome.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Toussaint L’Ouverture. One of the leaders of the Haitian Revolution which was sparked in part by the French colonization of the West Indies, the plantation system on Saint-Domingue, its brutal slave regime, as well as its colonial social and racial hierarchy.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Pearl S. Buck. Author of over 80 books, she was the first woman to be awarded both the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize in literature and active in American civil rights and women's rights activities.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Genghis Khan. He united Mongol tribes and carved out the largest contiguous land empire in world history, introduced writing to the Mongols, created their first law code, promoted trade and granted religious freedom by permitting all religions to be freely practiced.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Helena Rubinstein. Driven by courage, intelligence, and a will to succeed that would make her neglect her husbands, children and family, Helena Rubinstein built a beauty empire. She was born Chaja Rubinstein, and at the age of 24 set off to Australia aboard the Prinz Regent Luitpol with twelve jars of face cream.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Martin Luther who led the Protestant Movement with the publication of the 95 Theses, criticizing the Catholic church for allowing people to purchase a certificate of pardon for the punishment of their sins.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Mahalia Jackson. Born October 26, 1911 in the Black Pearl section New Orleans, she would perform for kings and queens, presidents and prime ministers and kept going back to sing in churches for the people who loved her voice first.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of one of America’s founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin, whose inventions include bifocals, the lightning rod, a library chair, swim fins, a long-reach device, the Franklin stove, and the catheter.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Amelia Simmons. Believed to be the first American cookbook by a European American, titled American Cookery, or the art of dressing viands, fish, poultry, and vegetables, and the best modes of making pastes, puffs, pies, tarts, puddings, custards, and preserves, and all kinds of cakes, from the imperial plum to plain cake.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Charles Strite, credited with the invention of the pop-up toaster. In 1921, he received U.S. patent 1,394,450 for the device, he called it the "Toastmaster."
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Hetty Green, the lone woman among 19th century tycoons such as Andrew Carnegie, JP Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, her holdings ranged from real estate in New York to buildings in downtown Chicago; gold, copper, iron mines out west; diamonds and pearls.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Reginald Fessenden, considered the “Father of Voice Radio.” On December 23, 1900, he became the first to transmit human speech over radio waves and is best known for discovering AM radio.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Lorraine Hansberry. The first African American, the youngest playwright, the fifth woman to win the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for the best play of the season on April 7, 1959 for her play A Raisin in the Sun.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, considered to be one of the two top composers of the Classical era. During his lifetime, he composed more than 600 works that include operas, string quartets, piano and violin sonatas, and many concertos.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Mary Anning. Born in 1799, she was a pioneering paleontologist and fossil collector. At the age of 12, she unearthed the first complete ichthyosaur fossil.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Socrates, the Greek philosopher from Athens famous for saying the wrong things at the wrong time and considered to be “famously ugly.”
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Olive Ann Beech. Born in Waverly, Kansas, her career spanned 50 years prior to her retirement in September 1982. She was the first woman to head a major aircraft company.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Frederick Douglass. Born a slave, he learned to read, and became one of the foremost African American leaders of the nineteenth century.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Annie Minerva Turnbo. Considered to be one of the first African American women to become a millionaire, she took an interest in developing a better way to straighten African American hair without damaging it. By 1920, her hair care empire employed 300 people locally and 75,000 agents nationally.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Mahatma Ghandi. Leader of India's non-violent independence movement, he would inspire for civil rights and freedom leaders across the world.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Josephine Baker. She was a world renowned performer, World War II spy, and civil rights advocate who took part in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom with 250,000 other civil rights supporters.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Winston Churchill, the politician, artist, bricklayer, historian, soldier, biographer, essayist who led Great Britain through World War II.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Elizabeth Freeman, also known as Mumbet. Ruled in their favor, Mumbet and Brom became the first enslaved African Americans to be freed under the Massachusetts constitution of 1780 in Brom & Bett v. Ashley which was argued before a county court in August 1871.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of civil rights movement leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the second African American to have won the Nobel Peace Prize.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of France’s last queen, Marie Antoinette. She became a widow when her husband, Louis Auguste, was guillotined to death after being tried and convicted of treason in January 1793.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of John D. Rockefeller, the businessman and philanthropist who founded the General Education Board in 1902 with a $1,000,000 donation to “sponsor and support aid to education in the United States without distinction of race, sex or creed.”
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. She worked on social, education, and cultural issues and in 1947 was elected head of the 18-nation U.N. Human Rights Commission. She even published her own newspaper column, called “My Day,” which ran in newspapers across the country, six days a week for nearly 30 years.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Henry Ford. Founder of the Ford Motor Company, he is credited with casting the engine as single piece. Introducing the assembly line to its manufacturing practices, Ford kept costs down and made cars affordable to consumers
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Henry Ford. Founder of the Ford Motor Company, he is credited with casting the engine as single piece. Introducing the assembly line to its manufacturing practices, Ford kept costs down and made cars affordable to consumers
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of African American lecturer, poet, abolitionist, suffragist, and reformer Frances Ellen Watkins. Born September 24, 1825 in Baltimore, Maryland, she emphasized that Black women faced the double burden of racism and sexism, therefore the fight for women’s suffrage must include suffrage for African Americans.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Thomas Edison, whose inventions who during his lifetime had over 1,000 patents to his name. His inventions include the photograph, the lightbulb, a kinetographic theater, the magnetic iron ore separator, along with the electrographic vote recorder.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Maggie Walker. In 1903, she founded St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, offering checking and savings accounts, mortgages, and loans to provide economic empowerment to women and help strengthen Richmond's emerging black middle class.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Abraham Lincoln. Born February 12, 1809 in a cabin with one window, one door, and a chimney three miles south of Hodgenville, Kentucky… he became the 16th President of the United States and issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring “that all persons held as slaves” within e rebellious states “are, and henceforward shall be free.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Madam C.J. Walker. Born in a one-room cabin with a fireplace, she would build a beauty empire employing 40,000 African American women and men in the US, Central America, and the Caribbean and found the National Negro Cosmetics Manufacturers Association in 1917.
“It [perseverance] gave us the telegraph, telephone, and wireless. It gave the world n Abraham Lincoln, and to a race freedom.”
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Mustafa Kemal. He would introduce the Latin alphabet in 1928. He founded the Turkish History society April 15, 1931, the Turkish Language Society July 12, 1932.Under his presidency, on December 8, 1934, women became eligible to vote in parliamentary elections, and to become members of the Parliament.
“I don’t act for public opinion. I act for the nation and my own satisfaction.”
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Harriet Tubman. She worked for the union army as a nurse from 1862 to 1865, during the American Civil War. She would become a supporter of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, joining their cause in campaigning for women’s the right to vote.
“We saw the lightning, and that was the guns; then we heard thunder, and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling, and that was drops of blood falling. And when we went to go in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.”
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Suleiman I, son of Selim I. He became sultan at the age of 26 and during his reign, the Ottoman empire extended from Morocco in the East to the tip of Arabia in the Indian Ocean.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of abolitionist and women's rights activist, Soujourner Truth. Born Isabella Baumfree around 1797 in New York, she overcame the challenges of slavery, illiteracy, poverty, prejudice, and sexism in her own lifetime, she worked for freedom, to end racism by mobilizing thousands to support the abolition of slavery and support women's suffrage.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. He believes that a prudent investor should be more concerned about what’s going on inside of a business than in the stock market. Known as the "Oracle of Omaha," Warren Buffett is one of the most successful investors of all time.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Lise Meitner, the Austrian-Swedish physicist credited with the discovery of nuclear fission. On August 7, 1945, she received a call from a reporter with a Swedish newspaper. He would tell her that the first uranium bomb had been used over Hiroshima. A second would be dropped on Nagasaki.
In today’s episode, we’ll take a look at the life of Bill Gates who in 1975 founded the company then known as Microsoft with childhood friend, Paul Allen. The two would later write the Altair BASIC programming language and licensed its use to Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry System (MITS), makers of the Altair 8800.
In today’s episode, we’ll take a look at the life of Amelia Earhart. Born July 24, 1897 in Atchinson, Kansas she was the first flier to cross the Pacific Ocean solo, the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California and the first woman to fly an autogyro.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Jeff Bezos, the founder of online bookstore, Amazon.com and artificial intelligence platform and aerospace company Blue Origin, that is developing rockets for commercial use.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Wangari Maathai. Born April 1, 1940 small village in the central highlands of what was then British Kenya, she founded the Green Belt Movement mobilizing women to plant nearly 30 million trees.
“Every African, from the head of state to the sustenance farmer, needs to embrace cultures of honest, hard work, fairness, and justice, as well as the riches—cultural, spiritual, and material—of their continent.”
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Elon Musk... the South African entrepreneur involved in reinventing automotive, aerospace, solar energy, energy storage, satellite, high-speed ground transportation and multi-planetary expansion.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Maya Angelou. She was the first African-American woman to recite her poetry at a US presidential inauguration, the first African-American women to make the non-fiction bestseller’s list, the first African-American woman to have an original screenplay produced for the movie Georgia, Georgia in 1972, and the first African-American to work on the streetcars in San Francisco.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Chiune Sugihara. He was a Japanese diplomat who disregarded government ordered and issued transit visas to thousands of Jews permitting them to escape the Nazis who hunted them.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Helen Keller. She was the first deaf/blind person to earn a bachelor's of arts degree from Radcliff College, and spent a large portion of her life working on behalf of the blind.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Stefan Banic. Slovak immigrant inventor who patented an early parachute design. He allegedly jumped from the top of a 15-story building to prove that it worked.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Cleopatra. Born of Macedonian heritage, she broke with tradition in establishing herself as sole ruler issuing coins with her head alone, exercising her power as an independent Queen. She was the first of the Ptolomies to learn the Egyptian language.
In today’s episode, we’ll take a look at the life of African American inventor and businessman, Garrett Augustus Morgan. Born in Paris, Kentucky 12 years following the end of the civil war, his inventions would include the Morgan Safety Hood and a three-way traffic signal.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Nefertiti—wife, mother, sister. The Queen who ruled Egypt alongside Akhenaten.
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we take a look at the life of Heron of Alexandria, the scientist and educator credited with inventing the first steam engine, the first automatic vending machine, and the first automaton.
In today’s episode, we’ll take a look at the life of Frida Kahlo, the Mexican born artist who would produce about 200 paintings in her lifetime, and even had an affair with Leon Trotsky.
In today’s episode, we’ll take a look at the life of Ctesibius, the hands-on engineer who crafted compressors still in use until this very day. Like Archimedes, and Heron of Alexandria, he too studied at the Library of Alexandria.
Anne Frank… the teenage Jewish girl who was gifted a diary for her 13th birthday and would be transported to Auschwitz on September 3rd, 1944. Hope that you enjoy learning about her as much as I did and that you subscribe and share.
Galileo Galilei, the Italian physicist & astronomer from Pisa. He challenged the presiding view of his time stating that the earth was the center of the universe and published the controversial book Galileo Galilei, wherein the meetings of four days, are discussed the two chief systems of the world, Ptolemaic and Copernican which angered the Catholic church and landed him in house arrest.
This week, we meet Marie Curie. The first woman to win the Nobel Prize and the only woman to have won the Nobel Prize twice; for physics in 1903, and chemistry in 1911. During her lifetime, she would discover both polonium and radium. In 1994, a new element, Curium, would be named after her and husband, Pierre Curie.
Let's take a look at the life of Archimedes… one of several great thinkers during the Hellenistic period. He’s credited with inventing the Archimedean screws, and the discovery of "Archimedes Principle,” which states that when an object is placed in a fluid, it is buoyed up by a force that is equal to the weight of the fluid is displaces. Hope that you enjoy learning about him as much as I did and that you subscribe and share.
In this episode, we meet Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman to have traveled to space… and she’s quoted to have said, “My greatest joy would be to become the first woman to set foot on the moon.”
Did you know that her favorite perfume at the time was called “Red Moscow”?
In this premier episode of Notable People in History, we'll take a look at the life of Albert Einstein. Did you know that he had sweaty feet? Did you know that the theory of special relativity actually started off as L=MV^2? ...that he was socially conscious and concerned about injustice and inequality? He even published an essay, "The Negro Question," in which he called racism America's "worst disease."